The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1887-07-21
IN CITY AND COU NTY.
DAsHEs HERE AND THERE BY OUR
REPORTERS.


Last Weeks Occurrences In City and
County Narrated in Condensed
Paragraphs.
Look out for sun-stroke.
The city ordinances are to be revised.
Scatter lime about your premises.
Mr. Don Shelton reports about fifty
guests at Danbury.
Prophets say We are to have onr first
frost October 10th.
-Siz--z-z-zip! The mercury went up
head-to 100 in the shade.
Our colored people will e1curt to
Reidsville August End.
-Diptheria is getting to be an epidemic,
five cases thus far reported.
Read the administrators notices in
this issue of Mr.. r. B. Kerner.
The excursion from Greensboro is ex-
pected to arrive in the city this morning,
Read the ad, of J. NJ Robinson's sale of
Livery Stable and other valuable property,
Mr.. Charles Yates, an aged and highly
respected citizen of Salem, died at his home
Monday night
Ralph, the little six years old son Of
Col. A B. Gorrell died of diptheria in this
city last Tuesday.
The NJ p Sunday Sunday School will
picnic to-day at Clinard's Stand-about two
miles south Of Salem.
An infant child of Mrs. Frank Burket
died on Monday night Mrs. B., we regret
to learn, is quite i'll.
Keep your lots clean,-use lime. 1t
may save you heavy doctors bill, or even
the life Of dear one.
The revenue receipts at the Winston
Office for the week ending Tuesday, July
18th, amounted to $1l, 7O3,5 SO.
-Messrs. Rossnbacher Bros, Winston's
popular clothiers insert an advertisement in
this issue, peruse it carefully.
-Messrs. Fries, Giersh & Senseman have
a change in their advertisement this week
to which your attention is directed.
Only one marriage license issued during
the past week; the Thermometer goes up,
the matrimonial market goes down.
The smoke stack of the electric light
engine house is now visible. You are
glad, we are glad, and evsryvody's glad"
Several of our mechanics have left dur
ing the past week to take up their abo.!e
for short while in the little city of Annis-
ton, Ala,
The Acts of the last session of the Leg
islature are in the office of the Register of
Deeds for distribution amsng the Justices of
he Peace.
DIR. Edward Rondthaler, of Salem, has
been invited to deliver the address at the
Mosonic Picnic at Moeksville, Thursday
August 11th.
Mr.. Theodore Kerner highly esteem
ed citizen of Kernersville, died at his home
in that place on Tuesday of last week in the
And year of his life.
The thermometer at 81 in the shade
and milk shakes at ten cents apiece-a bad
combination for the poor fellow who is shot
and tired and wants water"
Only one case of typhoid fever in the
Twin City has thus far come to our knowl-
edge, yet only the strictest vigilance on the
part of the Sanitary committee will keep it
away in these hot, July days.
will revise the Winston Township tax list
for 1887 on the LIST Monday in August and
decide all complaints in regard TO assess
ments brought before them.
We are requested to state that owing to
circumstances over WEIGH the Twin City
Band have no control, they have been COM
PEELED to postpone their Open Air Concert
until next Wednesday night, July 9th.
East Salem is one of the prettiest little
villages in the country and continues TO
grow. Divine services are held there al
most every Sunday by Rev. ]. F. McCuiston
and Mr.. Henry E. Fries conducts its Sun
day School.
The intense heat Monday evening ne
cessitated the closing Of the Salem Cotton
Mill. The employees say they never e1-
perienced such weather before, while the
Messrs. Fries were never before called upon
to suspend operations for similar cause.
1Is
week the mercury has been soaring around
in the top of the tube trying to knock the
top out and the worst of it is the Weather
Bureau at Washington says this kind O
weather is to be with us for some days ye
to come.
The merchants of Salisbury hav,
agreed to close their stores at 7:3O p. M, il
order to give their clerks rest. We SHOULD
hail with pleasure any such action on tn
part of our merchants. The tired ysun,
man who stands behind your counter all tn
day long needs rest and recuperation, he i
of flesh and blood and theselong hours ar
serious tax upon his endurance. EaE yol
not give them the evening"?
- weli-trzvsffed gentleman q shor
time ago remarked: "The Salem Academ
turns out the most polished ladies of an
school I've seen in the South. Their man
ners form quite contrast to the giggly
girly-girly style of SO many school girls.
The Academy has just cause to be prou
of her record. See its new advertisemer
in another column.
Last week we were glad to meet Mr.. Il
T. Moser, one of the best farmers in the dis
trict. A year or two ago he realized $l.212 o
less than three acres in tobacco, will rail-
500 bushels of wheat this year and has me-
er bought pound of meat or bushel
corn or oats in his life. Among other GOO
things he has taken THE SENTINEL forth
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